Newfield US Water Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance
Newfield, Maine passed an ordinance giving nature personhood and banning corporate mining of water in response to Nestle’s potential water mining in 2009.Read More →
This page identifies initiatives that frame ecological jurisprudence in terms of rights of nature. Initiatives are included in this category when they explicitly recognize any non-human element of Nature (e.g., ecosystems, plant species, animal species) or Nature in general as a subject with rights.